No, you do indeed want a "successful" contract. You just define a "successful" contract as one that minimizes pilot costs to Delta.

Because you're one of those pilots who's been convinced that it was pilot overreach that caused the bankruptcies. It's a story management and the Ford & Harrison union busting law firm has been using for over a decade now. Every once in a while, one of our own pilot members takes that as gospel instead of the union busting spin that it is. Once the victim has been convinced, the definition of success is redefined as getting to keep ones job. We see that here from time to time Oberon, you're not the first.

Your hope is to keep that job and never get furloughed. That's the negotiated outcome you hope to "live with."

Carl